Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny
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Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny was a Ukrainian poet, journalist and politician. As a poet, using the pseudonym Ellan, he was hailed as a pioneer of Ukrainian proletarian literature. Ellansky was a founder of th
Василь Эллан Блакитный
Executed Renaissance
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The Executed Renaissance, or Red Renaissance, was a generation of Ukrainian artists and intellectuals of the 1920s and early 1930s in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic who produced significant w
Vasyl Ellan-Blakytny
…Committee of the Ukraine CP, and later head of the Ukraine publishing house. In 1923, he found a literary organization of Ukrainian revolutionary writers "Hart" (Ukrainian: Гарт which means hardening). As his literary debut he had published symbolist poetry; Blakytny as one of the first in Ukrainian literature…
Members of the literary group Lanka in 1924. From left to right: Borys Antonenko-Davydovych, Hryhorii Kosynka, Maria Halych, Yevhen Pluzhnyk, Valerian Pidmohylny and Todos Osmachka. Kosynka, Pluzhnyk and Pidmohylny would all be executed under Stalin.